stackyFACTSBefore the advent of modern medical science, physicians firmly believed that human health was entirely governed by an internal balance of four distinct bodily fluids known as humors.
Before the advent of modern medical science, physicians firmly believed that human health was entirely governed by an internal balance of four distinct bodily fluids known as humors. When a patient fell ill, doctors often prescribed bloodletting via live, hungry leeches to drain away the supposed excess of blood. Patients were routinely subjected to dozens of these parasites simultaneously in a highly painful and fundamentally useless medical procedure.
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